Melvin Morse

A former pediatrician accused of waterboarding his longtime companion’s daughter by holding the girl’s head under a faucet testified Tuesday he sometimes was insensitive and rough with the girl but denied that he enjoyed humiliating her or causing her pain.

A Delaware pediatrician who achieved national recognition for his research into near-death experiences involving children may have been experimenting on his 11-year-old stepdaughter by waterboarding her, police said in court documents.